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How Did They Build That?
S1, EP2 "Towers & Roofs"A Manhattan high-rise; an Athens cultural center; a Singapore university.
Air Disasters
S23, EP5 "Training Ignored"Kobe Bryant dies when a high-tech helicopter crashes on a routine L.A. route-training ignored with deadly results; in Missouri, cockpit chatter dooms Corporate 5966; in Lexington, a twin-engine jet crashes after taking off from the wrong runway.
Air Disasters
S19, EP3 "Pressure Point"Investigators race to determine the cause of the deadliest single aircraft accident in history: the 1985 crash of Japan Airlines 123, which claimed 520 lives.
Air Disasters
S18, EP21 "Head-On Collision"With its conductors sound asleep, a freight train fails to stop and collides with an oncoming passenger train, resulting in tragedy.
Air Disasters
S18, EP6 "Who's In Control"Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 stalls and crashes less than a mile from the runway while approaching Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
Air Disasters
S12, EP6 "Deadly Space"In the skies above the Mojave Desert, the VSS Enterprise accelerates toward the outer reaches of Earth's atmosphere, guided by test pilots; the aircraft breaks apart and falls from the sky, killing the flight's co-pilot.
Aerial America
S1, EP13 "Georgia"The Empire State of the South; ancient Mound builders to the Cherokee Indians.
Air Disasters
S11, EP6 "Storming Out"On its final approach to Charlotte, N.C., US Air Flight 1016 is engulfed in intense rain obstructing the view from the cockpit; the pilots abort the landing, but the aircraft crashes to earth, hurtling along a road and breaking apart.
Air Disasters
S20, EP30 "Northern Extremes"Faced with the extreme conditions of the far North, three flights fall out of the sky leaving investigators to uncover the cause.
Air Disasters
S5, EP10 "Terror in Paradise"On 9 August 2007, Air Moorea Flight 1121 crashed shortly after taking off from Moorea Airport in French Polynesia, killing all 19 passengers and the pilot.
Air Disasters
S6, EP5 "Attack Over Baghdad"A surface-to-air missile cripples a cargo plane after it takes off from Baghdad International Airport.
Air Disasters
S18, EP1 "Cockpit Failure"Bad weather and a series of errors lead to the 2001 crash of a plane on its approach to Zurich Airport.
Combat Ships
S4, EP6 "Smugglers and Pirates"A look at how maritime task forces and the Coast Guard are keeping commercial vessels and US shores safe from pirates and drug smugglers.
Combat Ships
S4, EP4 "Heroes of Guadalcanal"A comprehensive look at the naval battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942 and the heroic efforts of U.S. sailors who held off powerful Imperial Navy.